pat doesn't have a new coat. but she does have a respectable republican -- i always tell her she'd look good in anything. >> nixon's point by point response silenced critics. eight years later nixon became the first politician to be victimized by the new medium. his shaky debate performance opposite kennedy, at least appearancewise, led to nixon's defeat in 1960. two years later he lost again. beaten padly lybadly in a case governor of california. looked like nixon's political career was over. in what he called his final press conference nixon blamed the media for his loss and laid the ground work for decades of distrust between conservatives and the press. >> you will now write it. you will interpret it. that's your right. but as i leave you, i want you to know, just think how much you're going to be missing. you don't have nixon to kick around anymore. >> the irony is without the press in 1950, he might not have won that senate race. they were in his back pocket back then. anyway, nixon didn't stay down for lon